When the republican campaign against the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and others thought sympathetic to Dublin Castle became more violent and successful in late 1919, the police abandoned hundreds of rural facilities to consolidate shrinking ranks in fewer, fortified stations. The pressure exerted directly on RIC men, their families, friends and those who did business … Read more
TG: First of all could you tell us about the history of the Mansergh family? MM: The Manserghs came to Ireland in the seventeenth century, but didn’t come to their present location in Tipperary until the early eighteenth. Originally, three brothers were brought over during the Cromwellian period by their uncle, a Colonel Daniel Redman. … Read more
Document 1: Section of a letter from Dr Croke, archbishop of Cashel, to the delegates attending the GAA convention at Thurles, 4 January 1888 (The Gael, 7 January 1888, National Library of Ireland). To the delegates of the GAA in convention assembled at Thurles. Gentlemen—I have no desire, gentlemen, nor have I a right, to … Read more
Recent discoveries of Scandinavian settlement remains at Woodstown, Co. Waterford, have produced great excitement, and not a little hyperbole. Settlements such as this are described as longphuirt or longphorts in the present literature. But what exactly was a longphort? Michael Gibbons investigates. The early stages of Scandinavian settlement in Ireland and Britain remain difficult … Read more
During the nineteenth century, about 40,000 emigrants left Ireland to colonise the lush yet deserted Argentine pampas and laid the foundation for a flourishing Irish-Argentine community. Edmundo Murray tracks the journey from their home counties and their mode of transport. Most of the Irish emigrants bound for Argentina came from two areas, the coastline of … Read more